This role pays more than
95%
of similar roles. Most pay
$198,000–$251,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$280k
versus about
$224k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology
Stripe currently has
173 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,400–$285,600
across 171 roles with salary data.
As a Staff Software Engineer, API Platform, you will join the infrastructure team to build and expand service frameworks that make complex systems resilient, scalable, and easy for other engineers to use. You will serve as a technical lead, mentoring a team of engineers while collaborating with infrastructure and product engineering organizations to advance service-oriented architecture adoption. Your daily work involves designing high-performance infrastructure products, managing the full development lifecycle from planning to delivery, and defining requirements for systems involving deployment, load balancers, web frameworks, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes. You must be proficient in at least one of Java, Ruby, Python, or Go. This role addresses the technical challenge of creating robust interfaces for internal and external customers while ensuring high availability across payment systems and fraud detection platforms.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $202800 from 326 postings across 28 companies.